Ana-Paula Correia, PhD

Ana-Paula Correia, PhD, is the Director of the Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE) at The Ohio State University. She is also the Ted and Lois Cyphert Distinguished Professor and Professor of Learning Technologies in the Department of Educational Studies.

She has more than 25 years of experience in learning design and instructional systems technology. Specifically, Dr. Correia’s expertise lies in learning design, online and mobile learning, collaborative learning, human-computer interaction, entrepreneurial education, and artificial intelligence in education and training.

Her work has been published in top-tier academic journals, such as Educational Technology Research & Development, Teachers College Record, British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Computers in Human Behavior, and Distance Education. She has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters in three different languages: English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her book with co-author Farrah Dina Yusop, Teaching Online Simplified: A Quick Guide for Instructors, is intended to serve as a practical guide or “handbook” for those with limited or no prior knowledge of teaching and education but are interested in online teaching.

As a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, she leads the Learning and Experience Design Research Group, a group dedicated to investigating learning design processes and pedagogies to create deep learning.

Dr. Correia is one of the lead faculty for Ohio State’s Master of Learning Technologies. Launched in August 2016, this program is ranked among the top programs by U.S. News & World Report.

Dr. Correia has been involved with research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Pappajohn Center/Kauffman Foundation, Battelle, and the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

Her research was awarded for excellence several times by the Association for Educational Communication and Technology as well as the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. She has delivered innumerable presentations at local, national, and international conferences.

Dr. Correia earned her Masters and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University-Bloomington. For more information, visit her professional website.

Research Interests

• Learning Technologies
  • Learning Design
  • Learner Experience Design
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Online Learning and Teaching
  • Entrepreneurship in Learning Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education and Training
• Educational Statistics and Research Methods
  • Mixed Method
  • Correlational Studies
  • Naturalistic Inquiry